The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1887-10-22
DAIRY NOTES.

Pure water. and plenty of it. is
absolutely essential to the production
of sound milk-Southern Farm.
A ,,iow, dilatory mixer makes a
great loss in the yield of milk, except.
perhaps. when cows are going dry at
the end of the season.-Boston Globe.
--Anatomically, the cows udder,
with its teats, is not a mere vessel with
pipes for outlets, but mass of intri-
cate ducts, which run very much like
those of sponge.-Farna, Field and
Stockmdn.
Much of the dairy butter which the
outraged stomachs of the millions are
fabricated with contains more abom-
nations to the cubic inch than the
worst specimens VI artificial butter
Western PiowDsan.
Sour cream will not make more
batter than sweet, rs fermentation does
not create fat but can and does destroy
it. The difference IL quantity in favor
| of sour cream is due to curdled caseine
in the butter, consequently it will not
keep well. DatryDsan.
Where cows are kept for the pur-
pose of being MIXED and their product
sold, either manufactured or unmanu-
featured, they are, properly speaking.
dairy herd; whether they are good
good lot of COWS for the purpose or not
| does not alter the case.-Boston Tran
script
| Cows are often compelled to get
| their supply of water from stagnant
| ponds and pools. These are teeming
with animal and vegetable forms of life
of microscopic character, which are
taken into the stomach and enter into
the circulatory system. = Southern
| Farm.
In Denmark dairying is taught as a
trade, boys being apprenticed for that
purpose. They are not only taught the
points and characteristics of stock, and
all the improved modes of making but
| ter and cheese, but schools are estab-
lished where scientific knowledge OF
dairying is also impaired.
"A dairy expert who ought to know
whereof he affirms, declares that salt
has little if any thing to do with the
keeping of butter. 1t has, he added, to
do with the retarding of the decomposi-
ten of the unexpected buttermilk, and
this for only short time, as poorly.
made butter soon gets rancid-that is,
if the buttermilk does.-Stapdard
| Few people have any idea of the
magnitude of the dairy interests of the
United States. They represent an in
vestment Of nearly five times as much
as the entise bank capital of the coun.
try, S671, GOO, 900, while the dairy in
terest amounts to more than $3,000,-
100000 The number of milch cows is
estimated at 1000. 900. Dairy World
Why will the sfovenly poor farmer
1 exhaust his land the quickest even il
he manures as well as the thorough
farmer? Because he subjects his soil tc
the strain of growing two crops at onct
grain and weeds. A few years O
that kind of culture will take thu
tuck" out of the best SSH in the world
As the old proverb has it-"Tidyness
saves, negligence wastes. - Hoard!
Dairynaan.
"A farmer near Goshen, Conn.
owns COW that does not give milk
and as he is economical, he has adopted
after considerable thought, a plan
whereby the misery milk-producer i
made to suffer for her dryness, and in ;
manner earn her own living. He hai
attached to her head a contrivane,
which makes it impossible for her tt
get her head within six or eight inche
of the ground. Therefore she has to ca
thstles, weeds and tall swamp grass
thereby saving the white honeysuckl
and low sweet grass for the. COWS tina
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